Sacred Seeds: Local Efforts That Cover the Globe

Sacred Seeds is an international network of ethnobotanical gardens preserving biodiversity and plant knowledge. We accomplish this through living gardens containing locally important plants, focusing on medicinals but including those of ceremonial, food and craft value.  Each sanctuary’s program addresses environmental education, community enhancement, conservation management, and ethnobotanical study. Locally-focused planning tailored to their community effectively creates functional solutions to common and not so common obstacles. Collectively, the global network of Sacred Seeds sanctuaries offers a wide variety of solutions to any one issue. As we include more gardens into the network, we enhance each sanctuary by increasing the experiences and ideas of the whole. Our ultimate goal is to support the existence of useful plant species and the knowledge about them by supporting the people in every ecosystem and region that hold this knowledge and use these plant species.